Wallet
Clanker Wallet
Create or restore a wallet, send and receive CLKC, and keep every key encrypted on your own machine. The desktop app and the clanker-wallet command line share the same keystore format, so a wallet created in one opens in the other.
Clanker Coin developers cannot recover your private keys or seed phrase.
There is no password reset and no backdoor. If a seed phrase or an encrypted keystore is lost, the funds it protects are lost with it. Write your seed phrase down, store it offline, and never type it into a website, a chat message, or a support ticket.
- This website will never ask for your seed, private key, or recovery phrase.
- Nobody claiming to be Clanker Coin support will ever ask for it either. Treat any such request as a phishing attempt.
- Obtain wallet software only from clanker-coin.com and github.com/ClankerCoin. Be wary of look-alike domains and unofficial builds.
What it does
Everything a payment wallet needs
One keystore, one address book, and a history you can search, backed by encryption that runs entirely on your machine.
Create a wallet
Generate a new BIP-39 seed phrase and an encrypted keystore in a few steps, on the desktop app or the command line.
Restore a wallet
Recover a wallet on a new machine from its seed phrase, then rescan the chain to rebuild its balance and history.
Send CLKC
Build, sign, and broadcast a payment in one step, with the fee and confirmation guidance shown before you commit.
Receive CLKC
Generate a new receiving address on demand and share it as text or a QR code.
Transaction history
A searchable record of every payment the wallet has seen, kept locally and rebuilt from the chain on request.
QR codes
Scan an address to receive, or a payment request to send, without retyping a long Bech32m string.
Address book
Save the addresses you pay often, with a label, so a send starts from a name instead of a string of characters.
Wallet backup
Export an encrypted backup of the keystore, separate from the seed phrase you wrote down at creation.
Encrypted local key storage
Keys are sealed with Argon2id and XChaCha20-Poly1305 and never leave the machine the wallet runs on.
How it works
How keys work
The wallet, not the node, holds your money. Here is what that means in practice.
Seed phrase
A new wallet generates a BIP-39 mnemonic of 12 to 24 words. That phrase, and only that phrase, can recreate every address and key the wallet will ever derive. It is the one thing you must write down and store offline; the wallet software itself does not need to be backed up.
Derivation
Addresses are derived from the seed using BIP-32 hierarchical derivation. Each new receiving address the wallet hands out comes from the next index in that path, so a single seed phrase can produce as many addresses as you need without ever being reused directly.
Keystore encryption
Day to day, the wallet does not touch the seed phrase at all. Instead it keeps an encrypted keystore on disk, sealed with a passphrase using Argon2id for key derivation and XChaCha20-Poly1305 for authenticated encryption. Opening the wallet decrypts that keystore in memory; closing it, or the machine going to sleep, clears the key material.
The node never sees your seed
Keys, signing, and the seed phrase stay entirely inside the wallet. A Clanker Coin node validates blocks and relays transactions; it never receives a private key or a seed, whether the wallet is running on the same machine or against a remote node.
Watch-only export
For a merchant or a service that only needs to detect incoming payments, the wallet can export a watch-only descriptor: enough information to derive addresses and see balances, but nothing that can sign a transaction. See Payments for how the payment service uses this.
Desktop
One native app: wallet, node, and miner
The Clanker desktop application is a native Rust app with three screens: a wallet for sending, receiving, and managing addresses; a node screen for running and monitoring your own clankerd; and a mining screen for pointing your GPU or CPU at that node. All three share the same process, so the wallet can see mined coins as soon as they mature without any extra configuration.
Wallet, node, and mining in one app
Run a full node, mine to it, and manage the wallet that receives the rewards, without juggling separate windows or processes.
Command line
clanker-wallet
Everything the desktop wallet does is also available as a scriptable command-line tool.
The passphrase for an encrypted keystore is read from a hidden terminal prompt by default, or from the CLANKER_WALLET_PASSPHRASE environment variable for scripted and headless use. It is never accepted as a plain command-line argument, so it never ends up in shell history or a process list.
clanker-wallet create # generate a new seed and keystore
clanker-wallet restore # restore a wallet from a seed phrase
clanker-wallet address new # derive and print a new receiving address
clanker-wallet balance # show the wallet's current balance
clanker-wallet history # list known transactions
clanker-wallet sync # rescan recent blocks for wallet activity
clanker-wallet send --to <address> --amount <clkc>
clanker-wallet rescan # rebuild history from the chain
clanker-wallet export --watch-only # export a watch-only descriptor
clanker-wallet import --watch-only <descriptor>
clanker-wallet backup --out <path> # write an encrypted keystore backup
clanker-wallet info # keystore path, network, and address countA note on trust
Only trust clanker-coin.com and github.com/ClankerCoin
Impersonation and phishing sites are common across cryptocurrency projects. Before installing anything, check that you are on this domain or the ClankerCoin organization on GitHub. Do not trust download links from search ads, social media messages, or unsolicited support offers, and never enter a seed phrase anywhere other than the wallet software itself.